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Offbeat News tagged with world

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
Offbeat  (tags: world, unusual, technology, humor, funny, Doomday, predictions )

Katie
- 20 hours ago - livescience.com
With the upcoming disaster film "2012" and the current hype about Mayan calendars and doomsday predictions, it seems like a good time to put such notions in context.
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Chinese Traffic Cop's Funny Lecture on Helmet Safety (Video)
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, culture, custom, funny, humans, humor, interesting, off-beat, unusual, society, world )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - treehugger.com
When Beijing Policeman Tan, the star of his very own local news segment, stops a motorcyclist because his passenger isn't wearing his helmet, we get an earful on gender norms, hairstyles, and one of our favorite topics -- helmets! See the video below.
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Drop in the Bucket Mitch Barrett And Suze Scott
Offbeat  (tags: world, PEACEperformance, interesting, culture )

Bernadett
- 7 days ago - willienelsonpri.com
PEACE SONG AND MESSGE FOR THIS DAY TODAY
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Penguins and Sea Lions Help Produce New Atlas
Offbeat  (tags: animals, world, interesting, environment, unusual )

Sally
- 9 days ago - newsblaze.com
Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife International have released the first-ever atlas
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Kids Speak Out for Polar Bears and Walruses -CUTE VIDEO!!
Offbeat  (tags: environment, animals, children, goodnews, world, interesting )

Tierney
- 9 days ago - worldwildlife.org
WWF has worked around the world for the past 50 years protecting our most beloved and endangered species--such as tigers, rhinos, polar bears and pandas. But that work is in danger of becoming unraveled if we don't act now to find a global solution to cli
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Woman Passes Driver's Test on 950th Try
Offbeat  (tags: auto, cars, humans, off-beat, unusual, women, world )

Caree
- 9 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time. The South Korean woman must still get past the driving exam to get license.
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Sao Paulo's Incredible Storm Drain Graffiti
Offbeat  (tags: arts, culture, design, humor, interesting, off-beat, photos, pictures, society, unusual, world )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Where there is concrete, let there be colour; where there is asphalt, let there be kickass graffiti. The world's metropolises are grey enough places without a hard line stance against graffiti - and the good it can bring. Take Sao Paulo, whose sprawling m
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THE BEST WAY TO WASTE YOUR FRIDAY AT WORK Go to WAL MART
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, interesting, humor, funny, bizarre, culture, ethics, society, pictures, odd, safety, world, photos )

Suzybell
- 13 days ago - peopleofwalmart.com
All we're gonna say is this is the best website we've ever seen to make the time at work go by fast. And, you'll be forwarding this link to everyone you know, in and out of your office..
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The Largest , Smelliest and Most Bizarre Flowers in the World
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- 15 days ago - gardeninggarden.com
While flowers typically attract humans and insects alike with their enchanting beauty and luscious fragrance, some rather perverse stinking flowers entice flesh and fecal-loving insects to their foul-smelling blooms in the guise of meat by their colors...
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7 Lamest Yet Widely Believed Cryptozoological Hoaxes
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Daphna
- 19 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Are alleged species like De Loys' Ape, the Hodag and Mer-People bona fide beasties on earth or do they only roam in the minds of fraudsters and their credulous believers? Despite what many might see as a weight of evidence against their existence, the jur
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Horrifying Plants That Eat the Living
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, environment, interesting, odd, off-beat, photos, pictures, unusual, world )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - treehugger.com
Anyone who has seen Little Shop of Horrors has felt it: that sinking feeling that something is not right. And I'm not talking about Rick Moranis singing. I'm talking about sinister carnivorous plants.
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The Lighthouse Keeper-Video-
Offbeat  (tags: arts, culture, goodnews, humans, interesting, world )

Daphna
- 23 days ago - gimundo.com
A gorgeous animated short about a lighthouse keeper and his world.
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Tom Regan Named One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World
Offbeat  (tags: tom regan, animal rights, visionaries, world, humans )

Simone
- 23 days ago - all-creatures.org
The November-December issue of Utne Reader names Tom Regan as one of the "50 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World." The magazine cites Tom's seminal work, The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
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Naresh Kadyan Required Sponsorship for Two Activist for AFA, 2010
Offbeat  (tags: ethics, animals, performance, society, world )

Abhishek
- 29 days ago - earthblips.dailyradar.com
People for Animals (SPCA) Haryana and OIPA in India don't have funds to participate in ASIA FOR ANIMALS conference, hence we want sponsorship for two activist to attend this AFA, 2010 in Singapore. Please help us to generate funds for it - Naresh Kadyan.
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Treading Gingerly Across the Lost Bridges of the Inca Empire
Offbeat  (tags: world, unusual, pictures, photos, humans, environment, culture, design, custom )

Daphna
- 29 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Sagging severely in the middle and swaying in strong winds like spider's silk in the breeze, the bridge was all that stood between travellers more worn out than the vines and certain downfall. Barely concealed below the massive cables of woven grass, the
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